News

29.11.2017 New Podcast with Klaus Schönbach! Klaus Schönbach, Northwestern University of Qatar, talks about health communication and journalism in Qatar and the MENA region.

09.10.2017 Research Award!Sandra Banjacreceives Research Award! The University of Vienna's Department of Communication awarded Sandra the competitive "Research Award 2017" for her proposal "'D(Re-)conceptualisingjournalistic role conceptions through audience expectations: Considering journalists and audiences in South Africa". The award, established in 2014, offers financial support for young scholars to conduct innovative research projects. Congratulations, Sandra!

18.09.2017 Journalism Studies - New editor!Folker Hanusch has been appointed as new editor of the academic journal Journalism Studies. Publishers Routledge announced the news during the Future of Journalism Conference, which was recently held in Cardiff. Prof. Hanusch will take up the position in January, 2018, and succeed Prof. Bob Franklin, who had founded the journal in the year 2000, and was its editor since. Journalism Studies is considered one of the field’s leading international journals, with an impact factor in the Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index of 1.927 for 2016.

26.06.2017 New research report!The Journalism Studies Center has released a new research report that examines the role that audience feedback plays in journalism. Exploring the results of a survey of 358 Australian news journalists, the report, titled "Putting Audiences First: The Role of Audience Feedback in Australian Journalism" shows signs that journalists feel it is becoming more important to provide consumer-oriented information. The report also contains information on journalists' uses of various audience feedback tools, such as social media, web analytics and reader comments. Download HERE.

01.02.2017 Welcome Daniel Nölleke!We are delighted to welcome a new researcher within our ranks. Daniel Nölleke finished his dissertation entitled "Experts in Journalism" in 2012 and was working at the University of Münster, Germany. Welcome to Vienna, Daniel!

Daniel Nölleke and Thomas Birkner. "Bypassing traditinal sports media? Why and how professional volleyball players use social media."

Judith Lohner and Sandra Banjac."Conflict (-sensitive) journalism: How journalists perceive their role when communicating conflicts in transitional regimes"

12.12.2016 New research report!The Journalism Studies Center has released a new research report that examines the increasingly important area of lifestyle journalism. Titled “Lifestyle Journalists in Australia: Roles, Influences and Transformations”, it is the first comprehensive study of lifestyle journalists as a group. Based on a standardized survey of 616 Australian journalists working in the area of lifestyle journalism, it provides detailed information about journalists’ perceived roles and the pressures they experience from a variety of economic and technological factors. Download HERE.

01.12.2016 Tim Vos in Vienna!Associate Professor Tim P. Vos, Coordinator of Global Research Initiatives at the University of Missouri, School of Journalism, will be our guest from December 2-8. Vos and Hanusch are currently working on a research project about international comparative journalism studies. Furthermore, Vos will give a talk for students of the Master of Communications Sciences on theory development in journalistic role perceptions (December 3, 1pm, SR 3).

16.11.16Members from the Journalism Studies Center will be represented with four presentations at the upcoming conference “Changing audiences, changing journalims”, held by the ECREA Journalism Studies Section from 23-24 March, 2017 at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.

Folker Hanusch, Sandra Banjac and Phoebe Maares will present a paper titled: “The impact of public relations and advertising on journalism in uncertain times: Evidence from a survey of lifestyle journalists.”